Re-centering Energy Justice: A Mellon Sawyer Seminar Symposium

Event Date: 

Thursday, May 9, 2019 - 12:00am to Friday, May 10, 2019 - 12:00am

Thursday and Friday, May 9-10, 2019

Listen to an episode from the Cultures of Energy Podcast recorded at the symposium featuring the Mellon Sawyer Seminar faculty (Javiera Barandiarán, Mona Damluji, Stephan Miescher, David Pellow, and Janet Walker) and postdoctoral fellow (Emily Roehl) in conversation with Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer (Rice University). 

A two-day symposium on energy justice in Indigenous communities and the Global South featuring the following guests:

  • Austin Ablo (Department of Geography & Resource Development, University of Ghana)
  • Sofia Avila (PhD Student & Conacyt Fellow, Institute of Environmental Science and Technology/ICTA, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona)
  • Dominic Boyer (Professor of Anthropology, Director Center for Energy & Environmental Research in the Human Sciences/CENHS, Rice University)
  • Ranjit Deshmukh (Environmental Studies, UC Santa Barbara)
  • Cymene Howe (Associate Professor of Anthropology, Director of Graduate Studies, Rice University)
  • Boureima Kabre (Co-founder, ÉnergieRich, Burkina Faso)
  • ann-elise lewallen (East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Santa Barbara)
  • Dena Montague (Research Associate, UCSB, Co-Founder, ÉnergieRich)
  • Tristan Partridge (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Institute of Environmental Science and Technology/ICTA, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona)
  • Kyle Powys Whyte (Timnick Chair in the Humanities, Michigan State University)
  • Rudo Sanyanga (Africa Program Director, International Rivers Network)